Westat: 50 Years Younq

摘要

In early 1961, Ed Bryant, then a tenured full professor of statistics at the University of Wyoming, and two former students, Jim Daley and Don King, decided they'd like to try something a bit different and settled on a partnership to serve the statistical needs of governments, business, and industry. This year, Westat, the namesake of that decision, having grown to an employee-owned organization of 2,000, celebrates its golden anniversary of incorporation in 1963 as one of the nation's premier statistical research and survey companies. That partnership had a number of early, lean years-its first year's revenue reached all of $2,000-but a move from Colorado to Washington in 1966, where opportunities seemed more abundant, set the stage for a dramatic change in fortune.